Backwoods Boy Inline Spinner

[kyratchethead]

My Dad had a good friend who was known to be one of the BEST fisherman in our area of

Southeastern Kentucky. His favorite fishing lake was Laurel Lake in Southeastern Kentucky which

is absolutely full of Rainbow Trout! One Bass Tournament several years ago saw the largest fish caught

to be a Rainbow!

When I first started tinkering around with making inline spinners for ultralight and light spin fishing, this

gentleman gave me several suggestions on making these for the Rainbows in Laurel Lake and it eventually

evolved into what he called the Backwoods Boy Inline Spinner. This simple little spinner has since caught

several limits of Rainbows out of the lake and has become just about the only lure I use when fishing for

Rainbows in Laurel Lake. Below are pictures of the components for and a finished Backwoods Boy Inline

Spinner with my simple instructions for making them.

This spinner uses a basic plastic worm weight for the front part of the body to provide weight to

cast the spinner with. My Dad's friend made the remark that "Wouldn't it be just like a Backwoods

Boy to use a worm weight for a spinner body!", and thus the spinner got it's name!

Construction Instructions

1. Make a "half circle" eye in the end of a 6 inch piece of .o26 wire using needlenose pliers..

2. Assemble the components in the order shown in the photo above as for any other inline spinner.

The Red flat faceted bead simulates gills on the finished spinner. You can use whatever color

combinations of the round faceted beads you like or that work the best in your fishing hole.

The faceted beads also give off a little more flash than smooth surfaced beads do.

Bill like a Light Blue and a Purple body made of the round faceted beads. One of my favorite

color combos is two Green seperated by a Red round faceted bead for a Royal Coachman

spinner. The beads can be found at any hobby supply store like Micheals, Hobby Lobby, etc.

3. Prepare a Size 8 or 10 treble hook in advance with a Krystal Flash tail and Saddle Hackle skirt.

Use colors to compliment the bead colors you use. Then attach the treble hook to the rear

of the spinner by either using roundnose pliers or a wire wrapping tool and trim off any

excess wire. I use a Jann's Netcraft Wirewrapping Tool to do this. You should wind up with

an inline spinner similiar to the Backwoods Boy Spinner shown below.

You can paint the worm weight if you want to, and even add eyes to the worm weight too.

I leave mine unpainted and uneyed because the worm weight will turn a little as the spinner

is retrieved, and the fish like it both painted/eyed and unpainted/uneyed.

This is a very good beginner's spinner as well for anyone, including kids, to make if they are

just starting to make inline spinners. That plus they are very inexpensive to make and they

do catch fish! Try some and enjoy!!

Edited January 22, 2010 by kyratchethead

[kyratchethead]

Here are a couple of more examples of these spinners. My two favorites are the two bottom spinners.

The Green and Red beaded one is inspired by the Royal Coachman fly, while the bottom Black spinner is just a

good all around searching lure for trout in lakes. The beads on all of these are Size 6mm - use a 4mm for a

smaller spinner or an 8mm bead for a larger spinner. Your color combos are limited to the color of these beads

you can find, which is almost limitless!

Edited January 23, 2010 by kyratchethead

[Fernet]

Looks good kyratchethead. I'm sure the perch over here would love them. Do you make the hooks yourself?

[kyratchethead]

Yep - I dress the treble hooks myself. I'm covered up with fly tying materials,

so I decided to make up some inline spinners and use some of the saddle

hackles and Krystal Flash I had lying around. I've made a coupe of these

using only the flat red faceted bead for the gills and one faceted bead for

the body. The bluegill in Laurel Lake where I fish like these if they get to them

before the trout do! The 'gill really go for a Chartreuse or Orange bead spinner.

This spinner measures 2-1/2" long, and has a 1/8 oz body and Size 10 hook.

I'm just now getting into the Powder Paint aspect of painting jigs

and lures, so I'm going to experiment with Powder Painting the bodies

on some of these too. Lead worm weights are a heck of a lot cheaper

to buy than the regular lure bodies on inline spinners. The weight on

the original post's photo should have said "1/8 oz" instead of the

"3/8 oz" that was listed too. The worm weights I use have a hollowed

out base that the flat red faceted bead fits right into as well. I use

1/8 oz through 1/4 oz weights on these.

(Shhhhh....I get them at K-Mart!)

These cast pretty far usingeither 4 lb or 6 lb test line too, which is as heavy

a line as I use anymore. Ultralight and Light spin fishing is a blast, especially

if you hook a 3 lb + fish - then you got your hands full!

[kyratchethead]

Here is my Super Secret, Hush, Hush, don't even tell 'yer Granny

Backwoods Boy Bluegill Spinner in my favorite color - ORANGE!!!

This one has an Orange 6MM faceted bead for the body and a Grizzly dyed

Orange saddle hackle for the hook skirt.

This one is the same size as the Chartreuse one in the photo in the post above.

I fish these pretty deep, out beyond the stunted, runty, bait-stealers that make

you say those words that 'yer Mama use to wash 'yer mouth out with soap for

saying.

My favorite colors of these in order that I prefer to fish for Bluegills with are

Orange, Yellow, Chartreuse, Black, Brown, and White. For some unknown

reason, the Bluegill in my fishing holes really dig that Orange color for some

reason. Maybe I can apply for a fereral grant of several million $'s to research

why Orange is a super Bluegill lure color. If the fed's can fund a research

project to 'figger out why cow manure stinks, maybe they'll go for this!

Edited January 30, 2010 by kyratchethead

[Buckeye Photog]

LOL oh you and I will get along great! I started making my own inlines (this is my first post in fact) when I came up with the idea for all the extra beads I have from jewelry making. I also used a worm weight on one of them.

[Fatman]

Love makeing inline spinners - I have two different wire spinners - hand held http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/wire-forming-tools/032040000009.aspx

and also the Netcraft wire former http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/wire-forming-tools/041571000006.aspx bought it in 1980 and I'm still using it - only paid $7.95 back then one of the best buys I've made. You can make pretty much whatever you want with it. I make more of the Mepps style.

I like your spinners and it's an easy assembly which is great for folks new to the sport. I'd like to get a Boggs wire former as it takes larger size wire's.

Fatman